Sentences with phrase «ratings of the party leaders»

Following a week of political scandal it was hardly surprising to see the collective poll ratings of the party leaders fall to their lowest levels ever recorded.

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Trudeau's Liberal Party under a former leader swept to power in 1993 and won three subsequent elections — all of them while interest rates were stable or falling and the economy was relatively strong.

Her approval ratings are also now the highest of any party leader across the UK, with even many English voters saying they would back her party next month given the chance.

At the end of last month Ed Miliband had net personal ratings of -46 % according to YouGov with 68 % of voters saying he is «doing badly» as leader of the Labour party.

So one needs some knowledge of the overall number of potential voters to interpret party leader ratings correctly.

The first was that her personal net satisfaction ratings have nosedived such that she is not only less popular than her controversial UK counterpart, Jeremy Corbyn, but also has displaced the Liberal Democrat leader, Willie Rennie, as the least popular of the main Scottish party leaders.

In a nutshell, Labour lead UKIP by 29 points in Doncaster North, not twelve; Miliband leads Cameron as best PM by 14 points, not one point; Miliband's constituents would rather see him as PM than Cameron; they give him the highest ratings of the four main party leaders, not the third highest; and they trust Miliband and Balls more on the economy than Cameron and Osborne, not the reverse.

Labour's travails can not be attributed solely to Corbyn's leadership performance; but as John Curtice has pointed out: «it can often be difficult to disentangle cause and effect in the relationship between a party's overall standing and the rating of its leader».

Of the four party leaders, he is the only one with a positive rating, with a net score of plus 25 among the general public (53 % say he is doing well, minus 28 % saying badlyOf the four party leaders, he is the only one with a positive rating, with a net score of plus 25 among the general public (53 % say he is doing well, minus 28 % saying badlyof plus 25 among the general public (53 % say he is doing well, minus 28 % saying badly).

Former party leader Paddy Ashdown said poll ratings show «very little indication» of how people will vote at the next general election.

Ed Miliband's ratings are also unchanged this month, with just over a third (36 %) satisfied with the way he is doing his job as leader of the Labour party and two in five (43 %) dissatisfied, his net score of minus 7 being better than Cameron's or Clegg's.

Furthermore, 43 per cent said he is the most competent party leader, narrowly beating Mr Brown's approval rating of 21 per cent.

The combined satisfaction ratings of the three party leaders are lower than at any equivalent point before a general election, a devastating new poll finds

Ed Miliband hit his lowest satisfaction rating as party leader, with just 28 % of people saying they approved of his performance and 55 % saying they did not, giving him a net score of -27.

History, however, provides no example of a party leader with a relatively low initial score significantly improving on their rating.

Just as party ratings follow a conventional rhythm, with oppositions having the chance to exploit the unpopularity of governments in mid-term, so do the fortunes of party leaders.

YouGov's latest survey of party leaders» ratings contains good news and bad news for Jeremy Corbyn — his problem is that the bad rather... (Comments: 588)

«Identifiers» who did not rate their own party leader highly were more likely than other «identifiers» to desert the party of their primary loyalty.

He has the worst personal poll ratings of any opposition leader in living memory, Labour have been consistently behind in the polls since he took over, and in May we had the worst local election results of any opposition party in 40 years.

There is also the perceived dislike of party leader Jeremy Corbyn, who has a net leadership rating of -27 %.

If anything his party is doing slightly worse than before he became leader... despite George Osborne's announcement of spending cuts... despite an average disapproval rating for the Coalition of 10 %... and despite unhappiness about Europe and crime from the Tory base.

Kirsty Williams, Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, today urged the First Minister to support her party's calls to scrap business rates for plant and machinery in Wales and to reduce the level of VAT that is levied on the tourism industry.

The leader of the Unite union, Len McCluskey, has insisted he still supports Jeremy Corbyn after he suggested the Labour leader would consider stepping down if the party's opinion poll ratings remain low.

Surveys of party members are quite rare, most of the time they only happen in the middle of a leadership election when there is no incumbent leader whose ratings we can compare.

This is becoming a part of a broad trend for the Conservative party — people do like David Cameron, his approval ratings are still impressively positive (especially by the disasterous standards of Conservative leaders), but it doesn't seem to be rubbing off at all on the Conservative party yet.

The latest figures also show the results of the party conference season on perceptions of party image and on the leaders» job approval ratings.

The ex-Cabinet Minister led a Tory backlash against party leader Mr Cameron's clear signal that he is unlikely to reverse Labour's proposal to raise the top rate of tax to 45p in the pound on earnings over # 150,000 a year.

Amid depressed poll ratings for his own party and its leader, Jeremy Corbyn, the peer said he believed Labour «can recover its ground but to be successful it must demonstrate strength, clarity, sureness of touch».

[41] The BBC reported that he had made several «gaffes» in his role as Shadow Chancellor and «in an interview he appeared not to know the rate of National Insurance paid by employers, and he was also reported to have clashed with his party leader over the policy of introducing a graduate tax to replace university tuition fees.

All three parties claim their leaders «won'the clash, but a clutch of polls carried out during, or immediately after the event, suggest that Mr Clegg went down well with viewers, who overwhelmingly rated him the most impressive.

But Miliband's party is narrowing the gap on the crucial issue of economic competence and the Labour leader's personal ratings are improving.

The acting Liberal Democrat leader, Sir Menzies Campbell, today tried to calm the nerves of his party reeling from the shock resignation of home affairs spokesman, Mark Oaten, and the lowest opinion poll rating in five years.

«Leaders at all levels and from both parties are focused on raising graduation rates,» said John Gomperts, president and CEO of America's Promise Alliance and a leader of the GradNation campaign.

Earlier investments of nearly $ 3 million in this personalized learning portfolio include Rocketship, a national network of blended learning schools seeking to eliminate the achievement gap in low - income neighborhoods, New York City's School of One blending learning model upon which New Classrooms is based, and CFY, a national nonprofit organization that runs the acclaimed online learning platform, PowerMyLearning.com, which provides students, teachers, parents and school leaders with free online access to pre-screened digital learning activities produced by third parties, as well as consumer ratings.

A year after a switch to new standardized tests for public school students caused passing rates to plummet, leaders of both political parties in the New York Legislature on Tuesday called on the state to back away from plans to use those exams to grade teachers.

For years, leaders of both parties had poured more and more money into federal programs for disadvantaged students, at a rate greatly exceeding the increases in inflation; yet the improvements in reading performance, for the student population as a whole and for disadvantaged students in particular, had been modest or flat.

But it wasn't until this spring, when the official leader of the Democratic party used her heft within the caucus to urge other Democrats to help ensure payday lenders could evade regulation nationwide, that her long advocacy for 400 percent interest rates and endless debt traps for the working poor became a political liability.

The United State Green Building Council (USGBC) is the embattled national leader with its third - party rating systems known as LEED that gives green guidelines for new construction, existing buildings and other types of construction.